Johannishof Foundation
The Johannishof Foundation is a foundation established in Hildesheim in 1161 and is therefore one of the world's oldest existing foundations.
history
It was founded by Rainald von Dassel , who previously held clerical offices in the city, to help the poor. For their equipment he donated u. a. Lands. The corresponding document, dated 1161, was issued by Bruno von Hildesheim . He also donated something. The management was incumbent on the dean of the chapter at Hildesheim Cathedral . The foundation had the character of a hospital foundation and was spatially separated from the cathedral, as the hospital was on the outskirts of the city on the border with the later dam citylay. After a reorganization in 1282, he retained the supervision and the right to appoint an administrator for the foundation. Nevertheless, there was a certain separation of the people involved in the fact that a spiritual convent was formed at the St. John's Church, which is connected to the hospital. The dean of the cathedral could appoint the four priests of this convent and appoint one of them or a canon to administrate the foundation.
1804 was influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment , the secularization, i. H. the secular supervision by the city, after 1803 the Hochstift Hildesheim was occupied by Prussia according to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss .
Act
It supports needy citizens of the city of Hildesheim in a benevolent way . She also supports social projects there, e.g. As of 2012, for example, the Malteser Relief Service was supported in Germany in a unique way to provide medical care for the homeless.
Litigation
There was one of the longest legal disputes in Germany over 100 years over the exact status of the foundation. A lawsuit filed in 1851 was decided in 1957 at the Higher Regional Court of Celle against the diocese of Hildesheim. In 1983 the Lüneburg Higher Administrative Court ruled in the 1975 lawsuit filed by the Bishop of Hildesheim against the city that the foundation was not subject to church supervision. The main reason is the gradual separation of the persons responsible for the foundation from the Catholic diocese. In addition, with the Enlightenment, the idea of public welfare, reflected in many places in the establishment of an orphanage as a comparable institution, took the place of the previously defining idea of Christian charity. A revision was rejected in 1984.
literature
- Lieselotte and Georg Pelchen: The Johannishof Foundation in Hildesheim and its founder - historical and legal aspects. Festschrift for Hildebert Kirchner , 1985, pp. 277–285.
- Carl Joseph Hering, Manfred Baldus , Hubert Lentz (eds.): Decisions in church matters since 1946. 1988, p. 139ff
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Axel Frhr. von Campenhausen: Gesammelte Schriften II, 2014, p. 477